the show in the middle of the fourth season; Garrison had decided he no longer wanted to be tied down to a weekly television series, preferring to avoid being typecast in one role, and devote more time to his first love: stage acting. He reached an agreement with Fox to buy out the remainder of his contract. In the final episode shot (though, confusingly, not the final episode aired) in which he was a regular character, Steve is disenchanted with his and Marcy's yuppie lifestyle, and is increasingly interested in becoming an outdoorsman (a real-life interest of Garrison's). He then disappears, with the explanation that he left Marcy to become a forest ranger at Yosemite National Park. Prior to disappearing he loses his job at the bank, after - in an effort to win a free trip to Hawaii - he approves a loan for Al's "shoe hotline" project which fails. His last job was as a "pooper scooper" at an exotic pet shop. In later seasons, Garrison would reprise the Steve Rhoades character on four occasions, returning to guest star in individual episodes (with Steve having pursued other careers in the meantime), as he eventually returns to professional life to become the dean of Bud's college. This episode was to be the pilot of a spin-off series that never happened. In the sixth-season episode "The Egg and I", Steve returns to Chicago in an attempt to reclaim his old life and settle back into the yuppie lifestyle with Marcy. However, after learning that she has remarried to Jefferson, he confronts the Bundys for not telling him about it. Soon, the FBI is on to Steve as he stole a rare egg that belongs to Yosemite and the Bundy family harbors him. In the seventh season episode "Peggy and the Pirates", Peggy narrates her own pirate fantasy. Steve plays the villainous ruler of the sea "Rubio the Cruel". In the eighth-season episode "Banking on Marcy", Marcy shouts out Steve's name. Steve returned in the ninth-season episode "Get the Dodge out of Hell" as a rich career man. But, on the closing scenes of the episode, it is revealed that he's a limo driver. At the end of the season, Steve had gotten a new job as the dean of Bud's college, Trumane. Jefferson D'Arcy Jefferson Milhouse D'Arcy (Ted McGinley) is Marcy's second husband (original age unknown, but younger than Marcy;